BEGIN:VCALENDAR METHOD:REQUEST PRODID:Microsoft Exchange Server 2010 VERSION:2.0 BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Eastern Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=1SU;BYMONTH=11 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:16010101T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;INTERVAL=1;BYDAY=2SU;BYMONTH=3 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT ORGANIZER;CN="Gupta, Sumeet Kumar":mailto:guptask@purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=Murat Koc aoglu:mailto:mkocaoglu@purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=ecefacult y@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:ecefaculty@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=ecegradst udent-list@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:ecegradstudent-list@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=ecepostdo cs-list@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:ecepostdocs-list@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=Bnc-facul ty-all-list@ecn.purdue.edu:mailto:Bnc-faculty-all-list@ecn.purdue.edu ATTENDEE;ROLE=REQ-PARTICIPANT;PARTSTAT=NEEDS-ACTION;RSVP=FALSE;CN=BNC-EngSt aff:mailto:BNC-EngStaff@groups.purdue.edu ATTACH:CID:4A2661C1D4552347BBBCDF80089E7E2E@namprd22.prod.outlook.com DESCRIPTION;LANGUAGE=en-US:Hello\n\nIt is my great pleasure to announce Pro f. Murat Kocaoglu's talk on March 4\, 2021 from 10AM-11AM in the Seminar S eries for ECE Faculty and Students. The details are below and attached. Ho pe to see you there.\n\nThanks\n\nSumeet\n\nZoom Link: https://purdue-edu. zoom.us/j/3164232249\nJoin our Cloud HD Video Meeting\nZoom is the leader in modern enterprise video commun ications\, with an easy\, reliable cloud platform for video and audio conf erencing\, chat\, and webinars across mobile\, desktop\, and room systems. Zoom Rooms is the original software-based conference room solution used a round the world in board\, conference\, huddle\, and training rooms\, as w ell as executive offices and classrooms. Founded in 2011\, Zoom helps busi nesses and organizations bring their teams together in a frictionless envi ronment to get more done. Zoom is a publicly traded company headquartered in San Jose\, CA.\npurdue-edu.zoom.us\n\nTitle: Entropic Methods for Cau sal Discovery\n\nAbstract: Causality is a fundamental concept in multiple disciplines. Causal questions arise in fields ranging from medical researc h to engineering\, philosophy to physics. The last few decades have witnes sed the development of a mathematical model of probabilistic causation by Judea Pearl and many others. In this modeling framework\, directed acyclic graphs - called the causal graphs - arise as natural objects to capture c ausal relations between random variables.\n A fundamental problem is t o learn the causal graph over a pair of discrete variables X\, Y from data . In this talk\, we first give a short summary of Pearl's framework for mo deling causal relations. Next\, we introduce the entropic causal inference framework which demonstrates that under some assumptions it is possible t o identify the causal graph from observational data.\n First\, we consi der the setting without latent confounders and show that if the amount of exogenous randomness is small\, it is possible to identify if X causes Y o r Y causes X. In the next setting\, we allow a latent confounder between t he two observed variables. We show that a similar identifiability result a rises if the latent confounder has small entropy. Specifically\, we show t hat it is possible to identify if one variable causes the other or if the observed dependence is solely due to the latent confounder. In both settin gs\, entropic causality framework establishes connections between causal d iscovery and information theory. Using this connection\, we propose effici ent algorithms for learning the underlying causal graph from observational data.\n\nSpeaker Bio: Murat Kocaoglu received his B.S. degree in Electric al - Electronics Engineering with a minor degree in Physics from the Middl e East Technical University in 2010\, and M.S. degree from Koc University\ , Turkey in 2012 under the supervision of Prof. Ozgur B. Akan and Ph.D. de gree from The University of Texas at Austin in 2018 under the supervision of Prof. Alex Dimakis and Prof. Sriram Vishwanath. He worked as a Research Staff Member in the MIT-IBM Watson AI Lab in IBM Research\, Cambridge\, M assachusetts from 2018 to 2020. He is currently an assistant professor at Purdue University in the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering. 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